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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 11 2017, @11:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-in-my-safe-space dept.

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With Governor Roy Cooper (D) taking no action on the bill, the state of North Carolina has enacted the Restore Campus Free Speech Act, the first comprehensive campus free-speech legislation based on the Goldwater proposal. That proposal, which I [Stanley Kurtz (Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center)] co-authored along with Jim Manley and Jonathan Butcher of Arizona's Goldwater Institute, was released on January 31 and is now under consideration in several states. It's fitting that North Carolina should be the first state to enact a Goldwater-inspired law.

[...] The North Carolina Restore Campus Free Speech Act achieves most of what the Goldwater proposal sets out to do. It ensures that University of North Carolina policy will strongly affirm the importance of free expression. It prevents administrators from disinviting speakers whom members of the campus community wish to hear from. It establishes a system of disciplinary sanctions for students and anyone else who interferes with the free-speech rights of others, and ensures that students will be informed of those sanctions at freshman orientation. It reaffirms the principle that universities, at the official institutional level, ought to remain neutral on issues of public controversy to encourage the widest possible range of opinion and dialogue within the university itself. And it authorizes a special committee created by the Board of Regents to issue a yearly report to the public, the regents, the governor, and the legislature on the administrative handling of free-speech issues.

Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450027/north-carolina-campus-free-speech-act-goldwater-proposal


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 11 2017, @02:25PM (11 children)

    Open, honest debate should absolutely be fostered at universities. But this quote seems to enable quackery and ensure it can get a safe haven at a university.

    Idiotic views need airing more than any other kind so that people can thoroughly understand why they are idiotic.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @04:10PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @04:10PM (#552394)

    Using that logic, we should broadcast Hitler's speeches from dawn to dusk. Then we'll all be enlightened about the wrongness of Nazism?

  • (Score: 2, Troll) by aristarchus on Friday August 11 2017, @04:51PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Friday August 11 2017, @04:51PM (#552419) Journal

    Oh Minty Brisket of the Thick Skull!

    so that people can thoroughly understand why they are idiotic.

    People already do understand that they are idiotic, that is why they are protesting such idiocy being brought to campus and given a podium of legitimacy!

  • (Score: 1) by ants_in_pants on Friday August 11 2017, @06:17PM (6 children)

    by ants_in_pants (6665) on Friday August 11 2017, @06:17PM (#552479)

    You say that, but the way that such idiotic views gain traction in the first place is because their arguments are phrased to sidestep logic. It would be great if people were perfectly reasonable but even smart people can be drawn into fallacies and emotional appeals.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @07:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @07:02PM (#552505)

      Then that would be their problem for being foolish. Don't de-platform speakers merely because some people are irrational and especially susceptible to bad arguments.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @07:08PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @07:08PM (#552509)

      And who gets to decide what is or is not an "idiotic view?"

      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday August 11 2017, @08:04PM (2 children)

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Friday August 11 2017, @08:04PM (#552547)

        Simple: the institution that's providing the venue. Their venue, their decision.

        It's the same in my house. It's my house, my rules. If I want to invite someone to visit, that's my prerogative. But no one has a right to come hang out at my house unless I want them there.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @09:40PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @09:40PM (#552599)

          You're saying the campus is private property. However, the topic is the University of North Carolina, a public (state-owned) university. Even though it mentions Congress, the First Amendment has been held (Everson v. Board of Education) to apply to state governments.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @05:31AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @05:31AM (#552752)

          You obviously do not think your private residence is in any way an appropriate comparison to a public speaking venue that is specifically there for organizations and individuals to reserve and use as they deem fit. The lack of logic you're espousing here is indicative of cognitive dissonance. I think you know that what you're saying is inappropriate, but nonetheless want to support it. It leads to illogical and inappropriate arguments.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @07:28PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @07:28PM (#552523)

      I'm gonna stick with "freedom" thank you very much. I'd rather not slide into tyranny and oppression by trying to stop tyranny and oppression.